"Lost" is a socialogical experiment being undertaken by the creators and ABC to see how long an audience will watch a television show with an increasingly twisted plot and no denouement. It's a test of patience. How long will you watch a show where nothing gets concluded, characters fail to ask obvious questions like "okay, what are you other people doing here?" favorite characters are killed off willy-nilly, and the show expects you to still fall back in love like some repeatedly cheating girlfriend from High School.
Much like the X-Files, whose absurd conspiracy became increasingly complex and contradictory, only to be sloppily concluded when ratings tanked (wait, these Aliens who can transport people and easily wipe the planet out are trying to colonize earth with Bees????)
Lost has no point.
It has no point.
The creators pitched a show about survivors on an Island where weird things happened. And the network agreed. Plot was not the point.
Don't get me wrong, the network probably wanted certain things to give the show the right formula. And it's a pretty tasty formula for the first season or two before you want to shoot yourself as a viewer.
They wanted conflict to drive the show, so the created "eeeevil" others. And they wanted mystery, so they tossed in a bunch of characters with names implying some grand significance in religion, philosophy and politics (Desmond Hieronymous, Rousseau, Locke) and anagramed the hell out of random stuff (Ethan Rom is an anagram for "Other Man" for God's sake). They even make some pathetic appeal to many juxtaposed Eastern religions and then throw in a bit of Egyptian hieroglyphics just for the hell of it.
No answers are ever provided; just more questions. Hell you can write that show for 20 years if you need to.
See, the problem with conspiracy shows is that either people discover the conspiracy pretty quickly or stop caring if they are not given an answer.
But "there ain't no answer, there's not going to be an answer-- that's your answer."
Theory by Eric
Much like the X-Files, whose absurd conspiracy became increasingly complex and contradictory, only to be sloppily concluded when ratings tanked (wait, these Aliens who can transport people and easily wipe the planet out are trying to colonize earth with Bees????)
Lost has no point.
It has no point.
The creators pitched a show about survivors on an Island where weird things happened. And the network agreed. Plot was not the point.
Don't get me wrong, the network probably wanted certain things to give the show the right formula. And it's a pretty tasty formula for the first season or two before you want to shoot yourself as a viewer.
They wanted conflict to drive the show, so the created "eeeevil" others. And they wanted mystery, so they tossed in a bunch of characters with names implying some grand significance in religion, philosophy and politics (Desmond Hieronymous, Rousseau, Locke) and anagramed the hell out of random stuff (Ethan Rom is an anagram for "Other Man" for God's sake). They even make some pathetic appeal to many juxtaposed Eastern religions and then throw in a bit of Egyptian hieroglyphics just for the hell of it.
No answers are ever provided; just more questions. Hell you can write that show for 20 years if you need to.
See, the problem with conspiracy shows is that either people discover the conspiracy pretty quickly or stop caring if they are not given an answer.
But "there ain't no answer, there's not going to be an answer-- that's your answer."
Theory by Eric
